The number of public IRC servers grew by 476 in 2020
reddit / irc

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buovjaga · 2021-01-02 14:21

[https://ircstats.org/servers](https://ircstats.org/servers)

6,820 servers in Dec 2020

6,344 servers in Dec 2019

Proof that people reach for IRC in case of emergency.

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C0c04l4 · 2021-01-02 16:24

...or that it's used by botnets for c&c :p

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htepO · 2021-01-02 17:15

"Servers" don't mean anything. Going by experience and reading
comments on this sub, everyone has an IRC server. I could, right now,
have one on my desktop, one on my router, and one on a raspberry pi.
Three servers that amount to zilch.

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loulan · 2021-01-02 19:44

Yeah but are there people on them?

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titioitit · 2021-01-02 21:09

Would be quite a thing if a server had grown by 476 users in 2020.

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I-am-fun-at-parties · 2021-01-02 22:31

> Proof that people reach for IRC in case of emergency.

You don't reach anybody by running your own server

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[deleted] · 2021-01-03 02:19

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LtWorf_ · 2021-01-03 08:54

But would you advertise a server running on your desktop?

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jessegreathouse · 2021-01-04 18:51

I would be thrilled if more people were actually using IRC for
chatting but i suspect that's not the case.

I'm assuming that most of those new servers were put in place to
support some kind of automation.

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[deleted] · 2021-03-22 11:09

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